Waste

A general view of the scheme

The production, collection and processing of waste has an environmental and financial impact on society and on companies.

A prior assessment represents the first stage in improving waste management within a company. It can be conducted using an individual assessment, which includes an inventory and recommendations.

The project leaderThe person who coordinates the project. may help companies by implementing various types of actions:

• Informing the heads of companies
  Should an assessment reveal a lack of knowledge on the part of companies, the project leader may invite all the companies on a business park to attend an information meeting.
• Setting up monitoring
  What we mean by this is monitoring the costs and quantities of waste produced as well as identifying the sorting and collection channelsA series of stages and arrangements enabling waste to be taken from the places where it is generated to the place where it is removed by a waste collector.. This work enables areas with the greatest potential for improvement to be identified, for example.
• Compliance with regulations
  In the Walloon region, there is legislation governing hazardous waste and packaging waste as well as the storage of waste. Visit the web site www.environnement-entreprise.be
• Reducing the quantities of waste generated
  "The best waste is the waste you don’t produce!”. In order to reduce the quantities of waste generated, the project leader may initiate joint preventive actions (including eco-consumptionEco-consumption sees itself as consumption, which takes account of ecological aspects (rational management of natural resources) and social aspects (compliance with consumer legislation, i.e. the quality and safety of products as well as their market availability). It is also known as sustainable purchasing in particular).
• Improving sorting
  In order to reduce the quantities of waste placed in CET (Engineered Landfill)The purpose of a Centre d'Enfouissement Technique (Engineered Landfill Site), also known as a "waste tip", is to dispose of waste by dumping above ground or underground. For more details, see: Decree of 27th June 1996 governing waste (M.B. 02.08.1996), art. 2 § 18°., new sorting channels can be developed within a company.
  And, linking several companies located in the same geographic area also enables new channelsA series of stages and arrangements enabling waste to be taken from the places where it is generated to the place where it is removed by a waste collector..
  The quality of sorting also depends on the way in which personnel conduct it. This is why the project leader may conduct an awareness raising session by bringing together a group of companies or by providing joint support for the implementation of this action.

To sum up, what are the benefits of collective waste management?

For waste, as in other areas, companies on the same business park should not be seen as structures working independently but as entities that can interact and collaborate.
There are therefore many benefits:

• Economies of scale (a reduction in collection prices because of the reduction in transport costs, savings in terms of time and energy),
• Possibilities for developing new sorting channels,
• Creation of a group dynamic,
• Improving the brand image of the business park and the companies,
• Etc.